Idaho County Fair, Day Three

Friday of the fair was Quality day. Quality classes are judged entirely on the animal--how well it meets the industry standard for meat production. It makes little difference how clean the animal is, how well trained it is, or how well you show it. It should be much less stressful than the previous day's Fitting and Showing, but Ellea gets stressed anyway. She was worried the pigs would fight. They didn't. She did fine. It was all good. Blue ribbons all around today. That's more like it.

More pigs.

More Bottle calves. she wasn't a fan of the bath.

And a visit from some of the Kaufman's. Glenn's sister Dori came up from Lewiston with their foreign exchange student from Belgium, her daughter-in-law, Jen and Jen's two kiddos, Sam and Andie. Andie sat with me approximately 2.2 minutes. She looks happy in this picture, don't you think?

And, day three was Glenn's and my 16th wedding anniversary. No pictures of us, sorry. We were too busy being romantic. A kiss in the cattle pen. A burger at lunch. Chinese for dinner. I swoon at the memory..... Luckily I enjoy the fair *almost* as much as Glenn does, so it's all good. He claims we'll do something special soon. We'll see. (The clock is ticking, dear.)